Tuesday, January 8, 2013

The Yellow Walk

Today I had more school and it was really easy compared to yesterday.  I finished all my school work for today and extra in about 2 hours.  The school online for classes that don't count toward college are pretty easy.  You basically fail or you master in the work and you keep trying if you fail.  I haven't failed any so it goes by really fast.  After we finished school we decided to go on the yellow walk.  We are living in the mountains in New Zealand on the north shore right know so you can already guess it is uphill.  The lady who owns this house has a gps for each walk.  The only problem was that the yellow walk was not programmed on there.  So she wanted me to set the route by marking waypoints every so often.  So we started and it was pretty easy at first.  We had to follow a little path for a bit going slightly uphill.  Also the lady said this was the easiest route.  Anyway we were on are way up a big hill or small mountain.  At the end of the easy part my mom and brother were like "Are we almost done?'  We weren't.  We had to go uphill basically vertical.  I had to stop to make waypoints so it was hard to stop and start back up again.  When we finally got to the top of the mountain we had to go down the other side.  It was way harder going down the hill instead of up because there was not really a path and it was all loose rock so it was like walking on ice.  All of us slipped at least one time and when we finally got down we had to go in a pasture with cows.  My brother hated even the thought of getting 40 feet away from the cows.  They were blocking are path so we had to shoo them out of our way.  We finally got around them and were headed down.  Next thing I heard was a scream.  I kind of panicked but turned around.  My mom and brother were charged, so they say, by one of the cows.  My mom freaked out and made my dad go behind the rest of us so we would not get attacked.  When we got down to the road to are hut we looked back up to where the cows were and the cow that charged was standing on the ledge watching us.  My dad said they needed some humor since their lives were so boring.  We ate dinner then started watching this movie called Boy.  I didn't really understand it but I watched it anyway.

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